Welcome to Our Future Water's first newsletter!

Our Future Water's new weekly newsletter provides the latest updates on trends, insights, and more on achieving a water-secure world for all.

As a background, Our Future Water has been created to ensure water security for today’s and future generations. This will be achieved by:

• Bridging communities – water specialists, points of view, and generations
• Generating and disseminating knowledge through fact-based analysis
• Advocating for water education at all levels to build a community of water leaders who can see and solve water challenges from various vantage points

Knowledge partnerships

In addition, Our Future Water is a Knowledge Partner of the:

• World Bank's Connect4Climate initiative
• World Bank/OECD/UNEP's Green Growth Knowledge Platform
• UNFCCC's Paris Committee on Capacity-building Network

Communities

Our Future Water's online communities have a total membership of around 25,000 professionals.

Click here?to join the Our Future Water Network. Be part of the community.

Join the conversation on the following LinkedIn groups:?Urban Water Security,?Our Future Water,?Circular Water Economy,?Blue-Green Infrastructure,?Nature-Based Solutions, and?Urban and Regional Futures

Insights

Read a selection of the latest articles on water-security-related issues:

• Climate Resilient Water Resources Management: The latest IPCC report is out. Read about the need for climate resilient water resources management?here
• Circular Water Economy: Read how the circular water economy maximises water while turning waste into resources?here

• Financing to Scale Up Nature-based Solutions: Read about financing nature-based solutions?here
• Smart Water Policies: Read how urban water utilities can use a variety of fiscal and non-fiscal demand management tools to balance rising demand with limited and at times variable supplies?here
• Swedish Water Calculating Water’s Carbon Footprint: Read how Swedish Water has been working with member organisations to develop a climate calculation tool for water and sewage systems?here

Books

Financing Water Security and Green Growth (authored by Robert C. Brears) will be published end of May with Oxford University Press.

Financing Water Security and Green Growth?offers a comprehensive overview of the innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement water security and green growth initiatives at various scales and in different contexts.

Robert C. Brears?explores the use of a variety of public, private, and blended finance models to create climate-resilient water supplies, reduce water-energy-food nexus pressures, encourage water conservation and efficiency, and increase water reliability.

Latest papers

Denmark's State of Green and Our Future Water have launched a new publication. It features no less than 21 solutions on urban water management!

Understand how managed aquifer recharge can help build a more resilient water supply and the many benefits to adopting nature-based solutions in creating resilient cities. Learn how thinking holistically about wastewater as a resource can yield both energy and natural resources. Read more here